The Pendle Hill witch trials of 1612 are amongst the most famous in ... when a young woman named Alizon Device, from Pendle in Lancashire in northwest England, was accused of cursing a local ...

In Lancashire, quite a few people clung secretly ... Nineteen people were tried in the subsequent witch trials, where the evidence of Jennet Device was eagerly heard. “My mother is a witch ...

The Pendle Witch Trials are a key part of Lancashire’s history. Alice Nutter was one of the famous Pendle Witches who was put on trial in 1612. But there were 12 women accused of witchcraft ...

The 400th anniversary of the Lancashire witch trials will be marked by a series of 40 events, it has been announced. The two-day trials in 1612 led to 10 people being hanged at Gallows Hill in ...

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Jones has always been intrigued by the idea of witches because she grew up near Pendle in Lancashire, site of notorious witch trials in 1612. The actress explored the history of what happened in ...

Between the 15th and 18th Centuries, there were approximately 500 executions following witch ... autumn of 1612, sixteen women were put on trial for witchcraft in Pendle, East Lancashire.

Suranne Jones thinks it's about time the term "witch trials" got a "rebrand". Given that the bulk of people executed were of course women, not witches, she argues their plight should be renamed.

The year 1612 is well remembered in Lancashire history for the ... believed her to be an “evil woman, and a Witch.” In his record of the Witch trials, The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches ...

The 400th anniversary of the Lancashire witch trials will be marked by a series of 40 events, it has been announced. The two-day trials in 1612 led to 10 people being hanged at Gallows Hill in ...

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work.